From: Hongyan Xia <hongyxia@amazon.com>

When we do not have a direct map, memory for metadata of heap nodes in
init_node_heap() is allocated from xenheap, which needs to be mapped and
unmapped on demand. However, we cannot just take memory from the boot
allocator to create the PTEs while we are passing memory to the heap
allocator.

To solve this race, we leave early boot slightly sooner so that Xen PTE
pages are allocated from the heap instead of the boot allocator. We can
do this because the metadata for the 1st node is statically allocated,
and by the time we need memory to create mappings for the 2nd node, we
already have enough memory in the heap allocator in the 1st node.

Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyxia@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Elias El Yandouzi <eliasely@amazon.com>

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
index b813ea75b5..3b698c8c41 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
@@ -1746,6 +1746,22 @@ void asmlinkage __init noreturn __start_xen(unsigned long mbi_p)
 
     numa_initmem_init(0, raw_max_page);
 
+    /*
+     * When we do not have a direct map, memory for metadata of heap nodes in
+     * init_node_heap() is allocated from xenheap, which needs to be mapped and
+     * unmapped on demand. However, we cannot just take memory from the boot
+     * allocator to create the PTEs while we are passing memory to the heap
+     * allocator during end_boot_allocator().
+     *
+     * To solve this race, we need to leave early boot before
+     * end_boot_allocator() so that Xen PTE pages are allocated from the heap
+     * instead of the boot allocator. We can do this because the metadata for
+     * the 1st node is statically allocated, and by the time we need memory to
+     * create mappings for the 2nd node, we already have enough memory in the
+     * heap allocator in the 1st node.
+     */
+    system_state = SYS_STATE_boot;
+
     if ( max_page - 1 > virt_to_mfn(HYPERVISOR_VIRT_END - 1) )
     {
         unsigned long lo = virt_to_mfn(HYPERVISOR_VIRT_END - 1);
@@ -1777,8 +1793,6 @@ void asmlinkage __init noreturn __start_xen(unsigned long mbi_p)
     else
         end_boot_allocator();
 
-    system_state = SYS_STATE_boot;
-
     bsp_stack = cpu_alloc_stack(0);
     if ( !bsp_stack )
         panic("No memory for BSP stack\n");
-- 
2.40.1